Mark Knows It All

Don't forget to check out: Mark Knows It All, The Website I was watching the news the other night and was shocked to see that we are having a rice crisis. How could that be? What will happen to my pork fried rice at the Main Moon Chinese Takeout? Apparently warehouse stores, such as Costco and Sam’s Club, in California and New Jersey have limited the amount of rice that can be purchased at one time. I’ve listened to several explanations as to how and why this happened. It had something to do with a crop failure in Asia, the falling dollar, Vietnam, ethanol, rising oil prices, and of course, global warming…always global warming. I don’t know what to lose sleep over first. There is the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the housing crisis, the education crisis, the gas price crisis, the climate crisis, the imported drugs crisis, the imported toys crisis, the NAFTA crisis. It’s enough to make me long for the 1970’s. All we had back then was a meat crisis and toilet paper crisis. Those were e...

DON'T FORGET TO VISIT: MARK KNOWS IT ALL: THE WEBSITE Before there was My Big Fat Greek Wedding , there was Zorba, The Greek , one of my favorite movies. Where is your madness? It’s four in the morning, and my insomnia wins out again as I turn on the television to see what early morning viewing could be had. Sandwiched between an informercial for hair replacement, and an infomercial for hair removal, there was Zorba, dancing on the beach on AMC. I was 14 when the Michael Cacoyannis cinematic masterpiece came onto the scene. My first impression of the movie was its wonderful music. My folks thought the movie was too racy for me to see (it was 1964 and Bambi was considered "morally objectionable"), but they bought the soundtrack and played it over and over again. When I finally saw the movie a year or two after its release, it was fun to see what went with the music that was so indelibly burned into my brain. It was filmed in black and white, which made it kind of artsy. T...

MAKE SURE TO VISIT: MARK KNOWS IT ALL; THE WEB SITE I have written numerous times about the vast wasteland of television. 250 channels and nothing to watch unless you are a Law and Order fan, followed by any of the CSI series: New York, Las Vegas, or Miami. Sometimes in desperation I watch Home Shopping. Colleen Lopez is easy to look at, and can sell a snowball to an Eskimo. Joan Rivers or Suzanne Sommers shows up from time to time to hock their jewelry, and both of them need to sell what they can before HSN or QVC goes to High Definition. If that is how they look in analog, I hate to think about how much additional makeup they will need for digital. Even for a news junkie like me, even I occasionally have to turn off the talking heads and seek refuge. Because food is one of my great passions, I often times turn to the Food Network. When I was small, my experience with cooking shows was Kitchen Corner with Marjorie Mariner. I can still see the salad tossing intro and hear the tatatatat...